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Pale Sedge

Carex pallescens

636Records since 2000
JunePeak month
41Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr2
May78
Jun207
Jul130
Aug45
Sep14
Oct7
Nov1
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England130
2Highland Scotland118
3Argyll and Bute Scotland68
4Cumbria England32
5Powys Wales24
6Herefordshire, County of England23
7Devon England21
8Perth and Kinross Scotland10
9North Yorkshire England7
10Telford and Wrekin England7
11Northamptonshire England6
12Stirling Scotland6
13Dudley England4
14Gwynedd Wales3
15Sheffield England3
370 England215 Scotland32 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 41 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
636
Peak month
June
Counties with records
41
Scientific name
Carex pallescens
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,420
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex pallescens L.
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159017 · GBIF 2726592